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South Easton, Mass. – The Northeast-10 Conference has
announced the appointment of Molly Myers as Assistant Commissioner.
The announcement was made today by Northeast-10 Commissioner Julie
Ruppert.
Myers joins the NE-10 after spending the past four years as the
Compliance Coordinator at Villanova University where she was in
charge of the monitoring of athletic department NCAA rules
compliance and aided in the provision of rules interpretations. In
addition, she administered Villanova’s National Letter of
Intent and athletic financial aid programs and was responsible for
coordinating the rules education program for coaches.
Myers’ duties at the Northeast-10 will include coordinating
the conference’s compliance program and other internal
functions, including providing compliance support to the conference
membership, providing interpretations of the NCAA and Northeast-10
rules and processing of violations and waiver requests. She will
also serve as the liaison with the NCAA Membership Services staff
overseeing member’s participation in the National Letter of
Intent and Coaches Certification Programs and the NCAA Conference
grant distributions. In addition, Myers will help direct the
conference’s academic awards program and serve as the liaison
with Conference constituent groups, including the Athletics’
Directors Council, Faculty Athletics Representatives, Compliance
Coordinators and the Conference SAAC.
Prior to Villanova, Myers was an Assistant Athletic Director at
Longwood University. While at Longwood, in addition to compliance
responsibilities, Myers served as department liaison for faculty,
registrar, financial aid and admissions. She monitored gender
equity and compliance with Title IX and was Longwood’s
Coordinator for SAAC and the CHAMPS/Life Skills programs.
A graduate of Hartwick College, Myers was a tennis student-athlete
for the Hawks and received her master’s in Athletics
Administration from Indiana University.
With 15 member institutions the Northeast-10 is the second largest
NCAA Division II athletic conference in the nation. Its 23
championship sports provide athletic opportunities for over 5,500
student-athletes, the largest such program of any Division II
conference.
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